Staged repair of extensive aortic aneurysms

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Estrera, Anthony L ^a   Miller III, Charles C ^a   Porat, Eyal E ^a   Huynh, Tam T T ^a   Winnerkvist, Anders ^a   Safi, Hazim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RUPTURE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036839793     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04151-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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